The number of people getting their first jabs of the Covid vaccine soared in the run-up to Christmas, the latest government figures show. Just over 221, 000 first doses were administered in England in the week ending 21 December – a 46 per cent rise from the previous week, the Department of Health and Social Care said. The largest increase was seen among young people – one of the groups that the vaccine programme has found hardest to reach – with an 85 per cent increase in first doses for those

Fines of ￡200 will be handed out to people in England who fail to wear masks on public transport and in shops from Tuesday under new government rules. The fines will double with every offence, rising to ￡400 for a second infraction and ￡800 for a third, up to a maximum of ￡6, 400.A regulation change including the new enforcement powers will be tabled before Parliament on Monday and will come into effect at 4am on Tuesday.... The rules are different in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where

At the time, he says, “ the Tory refuseniks were appalled ”.... In government, he says, he and

-from the far right to the communists, the refuseniks to the vaccinated. These groups are united by

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Hillary Clinton has made it clear that her co-authored political thriller State of Terror draws heavily on the experience of living through the Trump presidency – and on the threat to American democracy that she says her onetime rival still represents. Speaking to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an extended interview that touched on the struggles Joe Biden faces in executing his agenda as well as the build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine, Ms Clinton conceded that her foray into fiction has a lot to do

COVID could spawn into ANOTHER variant and prolong the pandemic-but there is still hope that the virus can be beaten in 2022, a WHO boss has said. Head of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, says wealthy countries need to share their vaccines to stop the virus mutating again.... 1 A WHO boss has said that the coronvirus could mutate again Credit: AFP A string of hugely positive studies show Omicron IS milder than other strains, with the first official UK report revealin

Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theView from Westminster email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... Please try again later{{/ verifyErrors}} George Osborne has suggested that Rachel Reeves is the “ heir to David Cameron ” – and himself – as he predicted Labour will win the next election.... The shadow chancellor channelled another former Tory leader, Margaret Thatcher, during part of a major speech on the economy last week.

But Boris Johnson insisted it was “ far, far too early to draw any conclusions ” from the recent fall in cases, telling LBC on Wednesday that the spread of the virus “ still presents a significant risk ”.... They don’t have a National Health Service that has a vaccine programme like we do with the certifications. She added: “ We risk going backwards again and our economy will suffer as a result of that.... And we saw that with the Delta variant that came into the country.” Welsh first minister